Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqHiABJNPrA
We discuss their recent journey of trying to grow 3reate podcast on YouTube, exploring the difficult balance between genuine creativity and manufacturing content for the algorithm. We share practical lessons from our experiments and give blunt advice to aspiring creators and entrepreneurs.
Support the pod: https://3reate.com, https://ko-fi.com/3reate or https://patreon.com/3reate
Chapters:
(00:00) Hello world!
(00:31) The YouTuber journey and the conflict between staying creative versus manufacturing content to grow a brand.
(02:04) Most advice for creators comes from people who are already famous, we’re not!
(03:19) Diverse topics hurt discoverability.
(04:51) The dark side of growth.
(07:15) How the metrics break down.
(10:31) Andrew reveals two secrets.
(14:47) Figuring out the algorithm can be its own form of creative problem-solving, similar to science.
(15:45) Why 99.9% of people won’t be successful.
(17:39) We debate the definition of art.
(22:24) Entrepreneurship parallel advice for both
(28:41) Andrew ends the episode by teasing the next topic. . .
